'Racist and anti-Semitic' Belgian festival removed from UNESCO's heritage list
A float caricaturing Orthodox Jews with hooked noses and sitting on gold bags outraged Belgium’s 40,000-strong Jewish community.
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A float caricaturing Orthodox Jews with hooked noses and sitting on gold bags outraged Belgium’s 40,000-strong Jewish community.
The UNESCO announcement was made at a committee meeting in Colombia yesterday.
Ireland’s national sport has been recognised by the UN’s cultural body.
An expert has said better integration of asylum seekers and refugees must play a role in this process.
Countries are set to unite to win the delicacy Unesco status.
Irish uilleann piping was granted the same status last year.
President Michael D Higgins is among those to welcome the news
The move will take effect from 21 December.
Deirdre O’Regan is 51 and in her final year of her degree. She went back to college after 30 years – here’s her story.
He didn’t follow park regulations requiring that visitors take a guide, the police said.
RTÉ has released special archived footage for the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
This week the terrorist group destroyed a 2,000 year old temple — but it’s not its first time.
Palmyra’s was destroyed by the group at the weekend.
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, today announced a fund of €13,000.
The announcement has been described as “hugely significant”.
Specialist staff from the wildlife service and the monuments service were on hand this week, as JJ Abrams filmed the latest installment of the franchise.
The film begins shooting today, but will Jedi knights ruin a heritage site?
The UN has warned that a “business as usual approach is not an option”.
The report from UNESCO found that access to mobile devices encourages people in developing countries to read full-length books and stories through their phone.
The military has taken over security in the city of Valparaiso.
The UN says Australia hasn’t done enough to tackle concerns about rampant coastal development and water quality at the world heritage site.
Dr Bill Podlich took hundreds of photos while working with UNESCO in 1967 and 1968. Here’s what he saw.
Three successful Irish authors will offer tips to budding writers through YouTube videos as part of the new National Emerging Writer Programme.
The damage to one of the best-preserved old souks in the Middle East was the worst yet to a UNESCO World Heritage site in Syria.
Meanwhile a blaze on the island of Tenerife has led to the evacuation of residents.
Islamist hardliners in northern Mali have claimed responsibility for what UNESCO termed “repugnant acts” of destruction on historical sites.
Hardline Islamists have threatened to destroy all of the centuries-old ancient tombs in the historical city of Timbuktu.
We take a brief look at the explorers, including one Irish man, who tried and failed to make it to the fabled city, the one who finally did and the other who made it out alive.
China has a reputation for reproducing pirate copies of goods – but an entire village?
An Bord Pleanála said that the bypass would have ben too close to the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Boyne Valley.
Young people in Ireland are especially vulnerable to homophobic bullying, the co-founder of LGBT support group BeLonG To has said. Today, we ask if you have seen evidence of homophobic bullying in Ireland.
International conference hears that BeLonG To group’s work will be written into the UN toolkit as an example of how to tackle homophobic bullying of young people.
Most adults in Ireland can now be openly gay, writes Michael Barron – but the reality for young people is very different.
Around 2,000 homes will be constructed in the Israeli settlements in retaliation for UN vote to allow Palestinian membership.
The approval from UNESCO delegates came despite threats from the US that it would pull US$80 million in funding if Palestine’s membership bid was successful.
W.B. Yeats was poor at spelling and Samuel Beckett was born on a Friday 13th…just some of the facts you will learn at the newly-opened Dublin Writers’ exhibition.
A 2,000 year-old Roman gladiator house collapses in Pompeii – prompting calls for the Unesco world heritage site to be taken out of Berlusconi’s control.